| Interviewee | LEBER, Pauline Haugh (b. 1917) |
| Professions | Factory worker |
| Interview ID # | OH 1266 |
| Date(s) of interview | |
| Description | Factory worker. Her experiences growing up in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania and employment at York Safe and Lock Company during World War II. Description of family farm on outskirts of Wrightsville; comments on dairy farming; attendance at Wrightsville High School; description of early work as a seamer at Standard Garment; employment at Hollis Manufacturing doing piecework; description of workday as a pieceworker; influence of rationing during World War II; employment at York Safe and Lock during the war; operating boring, milling, threading machines and lathes; comments concerning relationship between men and women on the job; absenteeism; influence of family members military service on quality of her work manufacturing antiaircraft guns; comments on her reaction to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death; adjustment to working in a sewing factory after the war ended. |
| Interviewer(s) | Ronald E. Marcello |
| Physical Description | 65 pp. |
| Terms of Use | Open |
